There’s a Super-Hot, Super-Gay Rob Hood Comic Out Called “Merry Men” That You Need to Be Readg - The WOW Report

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• MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
• REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
• ROB HOOD, MERRY MEN REIMAGED AS GAY ‘BURLY MEN THE WOODS’
• A NEW COMIC BOOK REIMAG ROB HOOD AS A GAY OUTLAW"THERE'S ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, PALACE TRIGUE, ARY MPAIGNS, RELIG ICTN, BLOODSHED, SEX, AND VILE, DASTARDLY VILLAS," SAYS "MERRY MEN" WRER ROBERT {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CULTUREBY DAN AVERYMAY 3, 2016/12:38 PMBY DAN AVERYMAY 3, 2016 / 12:38 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"A NEW COMIC BOOK REIMAG ROB HOOD AS A GAY OUTLAW","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-05-03T16:38:17.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-05-03T16:38:17.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"CULTURE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROB HOOD HAS BEEN A PART OF POPULAR CULTURE FOR CENTURI, BUT A NEW IC BOOK REIMAG THE HERO OF SHERWOOD FORT AS A GAY OUTLAW WH LTLE TERT GETTG TO MAID MARIAN’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COMG JUNE, MERRY MEN IS SET THE 12TH CENTURY AND FOC ON THE ARCHER BEFORE HE BEME THE LEGENDARY FOLK HERO. HERE HE’S JT ROBERT GODWSON, A MIDDLE-CLASS YEOMAN WHO HAS RETURNED OM THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GODWSON WAS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH KG RICHARD, BUT WHEN WICKED KG JOHN TO POWER, HE'S BANISHED AS PART OF A NEW LAW CRIMALIZG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROB AND HIS TROUPE ARE NTENT TO HANG OUT THE FORT UNTIL A MYSTER STRANGER ASKS FOR HELP AGAST THE SHERIFF OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"ROB HOOD IS THE HERO WHO STANDS UP FOR THE LTLE GUY... BEYOND THAT, HE'S PRETTY MUCH OPEN TO TERPRETATN,” MERRY MEN WRER ROBERT RODI TOLD NEWSARAMA."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE REVEALS THE IA FOR THE BOOK TOOK SHAPE WHILE HE WAS READG AMIC ARTICL ABOUT HOW THE ROB HOOD LEGEND ULD HAVE BEEN SPIRED BY SEXUAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THIS WAS ABOUT THE TIME THE MARRIAGE EQUALY AND [THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT] WERE THE HEADL. SO I CID, OKAY, THAT'S WHAT I THK ROB HOOD IS. ONLY THE 12TH CENTURY. IN A FORT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHILE ROB HOOD MAY BE ANACHRONISTILLY OUT, ARTIST JACKIE LEWIS MA SURE ALL THE OTHER TAILS WERE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“SO, SO MUCH REARCH! I HAVE THREE DIFFERENT BOOKS DITED TO RECREATG CLOTHG OM THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ERA, JT BEE I WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WAS DRAWG. TONS OF BOOKS ON STL, WEAPONS, ALL THAT STUFF.... I LOVE WORKG ON PERD STORI THAT ALLOW FOR A B OF WIGGLE ROOM THE SIGN PARTMENT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE "MERRY" MERRY MEN HAS A DIFFERENT MEANG THAN WE'VE E TO EXPECT, AND RODI CERTALY DON'T SHY AWAY OM SAME-SEX TRYSTS. BUT AT S RE, THE BOOK SOUNDS MORE LIKE GAME OF THRON THAN QUEER AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THERE'S ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, PALACE TRIGUE, ARY MPAIGNS, RELIG ICTN, BLOODSHED, SEX, AND VILE, DASTARDLY VILLAS—NOT EVERYONE MAK THROUGH THE ARC ONE PIECE," RODI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I'M TRYG TO BE AS TE TO 12TH CENTURY VERISIU AS POSSIBLE, WHILE STILL TELLG A STORY 21ST CENTURY REARS—PECIALLY 21ST CENTURY QUEER REARS—N INTIFY WH," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"EVEN IF YOU N'T INTIFY WH , YOU N STILL OGLE JACKIE'S SUPER-HOT TAKE ON WTERN CIVILIZATN'S PROTOTYPE LUMBERSEXUALS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• THERE’S A SUPER-HOT, SUPER-GAY ROB HOOD COMIC OUT CALLED “MERRY MEN” THAT YOU NEED TO BE READG
• NEW IC TWIST ON ROB HOOD TO SHOW ROUGH, TOUGH 'MERRY MEN' -- WHO HAPPEN TO BE GAY
• BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY

MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'

What if they were all gay? This alternate take on the classic hero and his patrts go back to the legend’s roots and rebuilds around an LGBT talked to the creative team about where this ia me om, how gay people were perceived back those days (’s very different than today), and how beg historilly accurate adds to the story.

A few years ago I me across some discsn of whether "Rob Hood" was gay—i. IGN: How, if at all, do beg gay change the character of Rob Hood? What sort of rearch did you do to how homosexualy was perceived and treated the era of Rob Hood?

In other words, there were— morn terms—gay acts, but not gay people. (“Homosexual” is a much later term. That's how I'm treatg them Merry Men; though even there, some of the st are exclively gay, and some are ls so.

REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW

Was important to you to reprent not jt gay men but the entire LGBTQ spectm? In the book, "merry" is a term that's analogo to our "gay, " but 's much more poro; clus anyone whose sexual life strays outsi the bonds of the strictly heterosexual norm.

ROB HOOD, MERRY MEN REIMAGED AS GAY ‘BURLY MEN THE WOODS’

Men aren't notorly monogamo, and pecially not 12th century gay men livg the fort.

And gay guys get to be actn hero, which hardly ever happens. Tled, simply enough, Merry Men, the ic book is wrten and created by out wrer Robert Rodi, wh art by Jackie Lewis, and featur a bold new story that rests the faiar medieval characters as gay Men might sound at first like a lightfully mpy seri, but is que the oppose. The ic is a ground, realistic look to a world where Rob Hood, still the faiar rogueish lear livg the woods wh his band of outlaws wh a good e, is now also a badass homosexual who ris up the face of discrimatn and opprsn.

Rodi: I'm a history buff -- ancient and medieval pecially -- and I was lurkg around some webs when I me across the qutn "Was Rob Hood gay?

A NEW COMIC BOOK REIMAG ROB HOOD AS A GAY OUTLAW"THERE'S ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, PALACE TRIGUE, ARY MPAIGNS, RELIG ICTN, BLOODSHED, SEX, AND VILE, DASTARDLY VILLAS," SAYS "MERRY MEN" WRER ROBERT {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CULTUREBY DAN AVERYMAY 3, 2016/12:38 PMBY DAN AVERYMAY 3, 2016 / 12:38 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"A NEW COMIC BOOK REIMAG ROB HOOD AS A GAY OUTLAW","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-05-03T16:38:17.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-05-03T16:38:17.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"CULTURE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROB HOOD HAS BEEN A PART OF POPULAR CULTURE FOR CENTURI, BUT A NEW IC BOOK REIMAG THE HERO OF SHERWOOD FORT AS A GAY OUTLAW WH LTLE TERT GETTG TO MAID MARIAN’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COMG JUNE, MERRY MEN IS SET THE 12TH CENTURY AND FOC ON THE ARCHER BEFORE HE BEME THE LEGENDARY FOLK HERO. HERE HE’S JT ROBERT GODWSON, A MIDDLE-CLASS YEOMAN WHO HAS RETURNED OM THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GODWSON WAS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH KG RICHARD, BUT WHEN WICKED KG JOHN TO POWER, HE'S BANISHED AS PART OF A NEW LAW CRIMALIZG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROB AND HIS TROUPE ARE NTENT TO HANG OUT THE FORT UNTIL A MYSTER STRANGER ASKS FOR HELP AGAST THE SHERIFF OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"ROB HOOD IS THE HERO WHO STANDS UP FOR THE LTLE GUY... BEYOND THAT, HE'S PRETTY MUCH OPEN TO TERPRETATN,” MERRY MEN WRER ROBERT RODI TOLD NEWSARAMA."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE REVEALS THE IA FOR THE BOOK TOOK SHAPE WHILE HE WAS READG AMIC ARTICL ABOUT HOW THE ROB HOOD LEGEND ULD HAVE BEEN SPIRED BY SEXUAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THIS WAS ABOUT THE TIME THE MARRIAGE EQUALY AND [THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT] WERE THE HEADL. SO I CID, OKAY, THAT'S WHAT I THK ROB HOOD IS. ONLY THE 12TH CENTURY. IN A FORT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHILE ROB HOOD MAY BE ANACHRONISTILLY OUT, ARTIST JACKIE LEWIS MA SURE ALL THE OTHER TAILS WERE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“SO, SO MUCH REARCH! I HAVE THREE DIFFERENT BOOKS DITED TO RECREATG CLOTHG OM THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ERA, JT BEE I WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WAS DRAWG. TONS OF BOOKS ON STL, WEAPONS, ALL THAT STUFF.... I LOVE WORKG ON PERD STORI THAT ALLOW FOR A B OF WIGGLE ROOM THE SIGN PARTMENT."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE "MERRY" MERRY MEN HAS A DIFFERENT MEANG THAN WE'VE E TO EXPECT, AND RODI CERTALY DON'T SHY AWAY OM SAME-SEX TRYSTS. BUT AT S RE, THE BOOK SOUNDS MORE LIKE GAME OF THRON THAN QUEER AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THERE'S ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, PALACE TRIGUE, ARY MPAIGNS, RELIG ICTN, BLOODSHED, SEX, AND VILE, DASTARDLY VILLAS—NOT EVERYONE MAK THROUGH THE ARC ONE PIECE," RODI {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I'M TRYG TO BE AS TE TO 12TH CENTURY VERISIU AS POSSIBLE, WHILE STILL TELLG A STORY 21ST CENTURY REARS—PECIALLY 21ST CENTURY QUEER REARS—N INTIFY WH," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"EVEN IF YOU N'T INTIFY WH , YOU N STILL OGLE JACKIE'S SUPER-HOT TAKE ON WTERN CIVILIZATN'S PROTOTYPE LUMBERSEXUALS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

One of the tertg thgs you haven't seen yet, bee 's an upg issue, is the revelatn that our villa, Prce John, cis to e the oft-quoted passage Levic for polil reasons; 's a means of gettg at the gay alli of his brother, Kg Richard.

THERE’S A SUPER-HOT, SUPER-GAY ROB HOOD COMIC OUT CALLED “MERRY MEN” THAT YOU NEED TO BE READG

One of the ways I'm tryg to be te to the perd is that the 12th century there was no ncept of homosexualy per se; the term self was hundreds of years om beg was same-sex activy, of urse, but that was seen as a behavral issue, not as an exprsn of inty. Acrdgly, some of the Merry Men are bisexual, others entirely gay, and there's one -- I won't say which right now -- who is actually straight, but who feels a sense of gratu and loyalty to another member of the group that manifts self as a kd of romantic love.

It was a liberate choice, and a b of a difficult one for me, bee I'm prcipally known as a satirist; my novels om the '90s -- Fag Hag, Closet Case, Kept Boy, and so on -- were all farcil tak on gay archetyp. Also, my first ics seri was a spy spoof lled Coname: Knockout, whose heroe had a gay sikick named Go-Go Fias. So people generally expect that kd of thg om me, and, fact, when I tell people that my new ics seri is "gay Rob Hood, " their first reactn is to lgh and say what a hilar ia that is.

NEW IC TWIST ON ROB HOOD TO SHOW ROUGH, TOUGH 'MERRY MEN' -- WHO HAPPEN TO BE GAY

And then gets awkward bee I have to set them thg is, I've been atg for gay actn-adventure hero for years now.

BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY

Bee may be the 12th century and they may be peril of their liv, but this is a still bunch of burly gay guys the woods. <i> From Rters</i> LONDON — England’s legendary outlaw Rob Hood was gay, preferrg his “merrie men” to Maid Marian, a leadg English lerature profsor reasssment of one of Bra’s greatt folk hero was greeted by gay activists as a wele, if belated, “outg. Stephen Knight, profsor of English lerature at Cardiff Universy, cid Rob Hood was gay after studyg 14th century ballads that are the earlit known acunts of his eds.

“The ballads uld not say outright that he was gay bee of the prevailg moral climate, but they do nta a great al of erotic imagery, ” he said the ballads showed that Maid Marian--always scribed as Rob Hood’s te love--never thks her name was add by 16th century thors who wanted the outlaw who robbed om the rich to give to the poor to be more rpectable to heterosexual theory won backg om Barry Dobson, profsor of medieval history at the Universy of Cambridge.

“In the 12th century homosexualy was accepted, but the 13th the church beme much ls tolerant, and such people were driven unrground, ” he Hood has always been portrayed as an aristocrat who beme an outlaw after his lands were nfisted by Kg John the Tatchell of the gay rights group Outrage was lighted by the new theory: “His liftyle alone was enough to provoke speculatn. It’s about time school history lsons acknowledged the ntributn of famo homosexuals. 2009 has seen the closure of Nottgham's premiere Rob Hood tourist attractn, The Tal of Rob Hood, and June the BBC cid not to re-missn their Saturday night Rob Hood televisn you n't keep a good hero down and he's back the news thanks to a guid walk Nottgham lled the Gay Rob Hood exam the alleged homosexual origs of the man and has been rearched by Nottgham historian Tony over MarianTony believ Rob's orig dat back 700 years.